Just days before signing an October 2020 letter baselessly linking the Hunter Biden laptop to Russia, former Obama CIA Director John Brennan condemned the “politicization” of intelligence on the podcast of Mike Morell — the ex-CIA acting director who said now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
Just days before signing an October 2020 letter baselessly linking the Hunter Biden laptop to Russia, former Obama CIA Director John Brennan condemned the “politicization” of intelligence on the podcast of Mike Morell — the ex-CIA acting director who said now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to craft it.
The ex-Obama CIA director was particularly upset on the show because then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe had declassified Russia investigation documents days prior, including handwritten notes from Brennan showing he briefed President Barack Obama in the summer of 2016 on an unverified Russian intelligence report claiming that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned on tying then-candidate Trump to Russia’s hack of the Democratic National Committee to distract from...
Brennan replied by saying that Trump is “dismissive of intelligence and denigrates” the intelligence community and said, “It is incumbent on the future leaders of the intelligence community to speak out.” If Joe Biden won, there would be “much greater respect” for the intelligence community, Brennan said, calling it “so, so unfortunate that the intelligence work is now the subject of great partisan sniping on the Hill.
Priess warned about potential intelligence briefings to Joe Biden being “politicized” in the lead-up to the 2020 election. The former CIA briefer also lamented that Trump was “publicly chastising his own intelligence agencies or publicly undermining conclusions that they have reached.” Priess said he was “very worried” about a Trump reelection, claiming that the U.S. intelligence community was “under threat because of this very different presidency.
Republicans in Congress said Morell received a call from then-Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti after the Oct. 22 presidential debate to thank him for"putting the statement out." Glenn Gerstell, a former general counsel of the National Security Agency, appeared with Morell in December 2020, calling “disinformation” a “national security threat” and said foreign and domestic disinformation “both are dangerous.” In reference to Trump, Gerstell said, “When the president himself is one of the sources of disinformation, that has a great effect.” He also contended that Joe Biden would have to work to “restore the confidence of the American public in the intelligence community.
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